Cavalry

Description

The Cavalry is a large guardian enemy that appears in Badlands II. The Cavalry spawns before the Gunslinger, on the left and right paths of the Badlands II map. It has very high health and a slightly slow speed. It has one ability, where it shoots a tower, stunning it for a few seconds.

The Cavalry replaces the Fallen Guardian in Badlands II. Despite the All Paths modifier being active on Badlands II, only six Cavalries spawn instead of twelve, with there being three for both the left and right side, rather than there being four for each path.

Appearance

The Cavalry is a giant humanoid with a waist and lower arms in its rig. It has a very desaturated green skin color. Its head is missing a patch of skin, revealing its skull. It wears a dark grey button up shirt with five yellow buttons, navy blue pants and very dark brown boots. It has a yellow and black belt with a gold buckle and a holster on its waist and a bandolier on its torso. It also has gold chevrons on its elbows and wears black gloves. It wears a beige cowboy hat and has a crimson shawl.

The Cavalry wields an 1860 Spencer lever action rifle to shoot towers and has a cartoonish walk as it holds it, having the rifle lean against its shoulder. It has a death animation, where it fall backwards, dropping its rifle in the process.

Strategy

• As six of these spawn, multiple high DPS towers, such as the Accelerator, Engineer, Golden Minigunner or Turret are recommended.
  • The Commander can be useful at boosting the firerate of these towers.
  • You can use the Nuke consumable to instantly kill six Cavalries.
• Slowing towers, like the Sledger and Electroshocker can be useful at slowing these down.
• Because of their ability to stun towers, use of the Medic is recommended to cleanse the stuns.

Gallery

Promotional Images

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  Cavalry on a promotional image.

Trailers

• Cavalry in the game trailer.
  Cavalry in the game trailer.

Miscellaneous

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  Cavalry on its Index icon.

Trivia

• The Cavalry appears to be based on US cavalrymen in the American Old West and 19th century.
• This enemy resembles more of a foot soldier rather than an actual cavalry unit due to the fact that they have no horses to mount on.
  • Uniquely, they also seem to march in sync with each other.
• The weapon of the Cavalry, as mentioned before, is the 1860 Spencer Lever Action Rifle, which was heavily adopted by the US Cavalry in the 19th century.

Version History

• 30 September 2022 - v1.3.0
  • Cavalry added
  • Bug: Cavalry's death animation sometimes breaks, causing it to stand up instead of laying down.
• 5 February 2025
  • Bug: Appears twice in the Index, one of them not loading in any model for the preview.

Western (Badlands II)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Undead Miner Wave 39	Cavalry & Gunslinger Wave 40	End N/A